Reading about the level of natural language processing used in the computer used to defeat humans at Jeopardy makes me fear for the future of my profession. If users could query a source of information that has been verified using spoken language, then the majority of what I teach to students would no longer be useful. On the other hand, a single source of information, no matter how convenient, would give the creator and curator of that information incredible power. We’ll see how it all shakes out.
Advertisement
